Senior Associate Director, Alumni Regional Engagement

Founded in 1863, Boston College is a Jesuit, Catholic university located six miles from downtown Boston with an enrollment of 9,484 full-time undergraduates and 5,250 graduate and professional students.  Ranked 35 among national universities, Boston College has 888 full-time and 1,281 FTE faculty, 2,711 non-faculty employees, an operating budget of $1.4 billion, and an endowment in excess of $3.5 billion.

Job Description

As we embark on Soaring Higher: the Campaign for Boston College, we invite you to join our community. Driven by our mission in ways that advance the university for years to come, priority areas for this $3B comprehensive campaign include Financial Aid, Academics, and Student Life.

Based on a fundamental Jesuit tenet of developing the whole person, University Advancement is large enough to benefit from many campus resources, yet small enough to be agile and creative in supporting all associates.  With an average tenure of close to 10 years at Boston College, our 250-person centralized organizational structure offers a variety of roles across fundraising, alumni relations, operations, and communications and engagement.  We invest in the professional growth of every staff member through individual and team-based programs.  Likewise, we aim to attract the very best, seeking team members who are as ambitious and as committed to our team as we are.  We value a culture of diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging while actively promoting team members who contribute to the success of University Advancement.

See below the current opportunity to begin (or return to!) your Boston College experience!

Job Description:

The Senior Associate Director, Alumni Regional Engagement position within Alumni Relations is designed to develop a stronger national Boston College community which fosters alumni connections to Boston College in support of the University’s mission.  It reports to the Director, Alumni Regional & Class Engagement is charged with planning, managing, and implementing the Boston College Alumni Association’s national alumni chapter and overall regional engagement strategy which includes but is not limited to more than 70 active domestic alumni volunteer groups and an annual budget supporting more than four hundred events.  The Senior Associate Director will manage all alumni domestic chapters, their respective annual and signature programming, campus partnerships and team budget to engage, inspire and connect alumni by way of the region they live within, ensuring that their engagement with the University remains strong regardless of where they live.

Essential functions include:

• Recruiting, training, and retaining more than two hundred chapter leaders and volunteers.
• Acting as a liaison between chapter leaders/volunteers and various University constituencies.
• Coordinating the execution of regional events including, but not limited to, meetings, receptions, speakers’ series, spiritual, athletic and service projects.
• Establishing effective budgets and timelines for regional events and programs.
• Overseeing the development of collateral materials necessary to foster continued volunteer interaction and participation.
• Collaborating with gift officers on the Annual and Leadership Giving team as well as the Major & Principal Gifts Giving team, to help drive and increase undergraduate engagement activity that aligns with University Advancement annual priorities.
• Formulating, implementing, and maintaining national chapter standard operating policies and procedures.
• Managing a team of four individuals, including three Assistant/Associate Directors and one Alumni Relations Assistant.

As a primary point of contact with alumni, the incumbent must be able to represent the University and the Alumni Association in a professional, enthusiastic manner with a customer service approach and team focus as well as provide a consistent, high- quality experience in all interactions with volunteers. Public speaking ability is a key success factor for this position. Significant domestic travel is required.

Full-Time Equivalent Hiring Range: $80,850 to $101,050; salary commensurate with relevant experience.

Requirements

This position requires a Bachelor’s degree and a minimum of five years of professional work experience in alumni relations, fundraising, development, donor relations, nonprofit management, research, marketing, communications, sales or similar professional work.  A minimum of two years of management experience, including staff, and a minimum of one year of experience developing and managing a budget required.  

To be successful, must have excellent verbal, written and interpersonal skills, strong fiscal management and supervisory skills, demonstrated program and event management skills, including diplomacy, creative thinking, vigilance, problem solving, and the ability to quickly resolve issues with common sense and available resources. Ability to manage confidential information with discretion and tact required. Also, must have an ability to interact effectively with volunteers, donors, University administrators and Trustees and a commitment to regularly work night and weekend events, some with travel, as necessary to manage programs successfully.  A strong knowledge and application of MS Word, MS Excel, and PowerPoint is expected; experience with Customer Relationship Management software is a plus.  Strong leadership qualities, including the ability both to delegate and to execute, thereby leading by word and by example required; ability to work collegially and collaboratively in a team setting required. An exceptional work ethic and track record of personal initiative required. Outstanding interpersonal and communications skills characterized by the ability to listen, to speak, and to write well required. Must be flexible and adaptable to new programs in an emerging and changing environment required. 

Must be a team player who is highly motivated and dedicated to the goals of advancing higher education and have an appreciation for Jesuit Catholic education and the goals and values of Boston College. 

The office of University Advancement supports the mission of Boston College by promoting a culture of inclusion that values each individual. Our recruiting practices support that commitment to build diverse teams reflecting our community; students, alumni, parents and friends of Boston College.

Closing Statement

Boston College offers a broad and competitive range of benefits depending on your job classification eligibility:

• Tuition remission for Employees
• Tuition remission for Spouses and Children who meet eligibility requirements
• Generous Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance
• Low-Cost Life Insurance
• Eligibility for both University-Funded 401k and Employer-Sponsored 403b Retirement Plans
• Paid Holidays Annually
• Generous Sick and Vacation Pay
• Additional benefits can be found on https://www.bc.edu/employeehandbook

Boston College conducts pre-employment background checks as part of the hiring process.

Boston College is an affirmative action, equal opportunity employer. In concert with our Jesuit, Catholic mission, Boston College is dedicated to the goal of building a culturally diverse and pluralistic faculty and staff committed to teaching and working in a multicultural environment and strongly encourages applications for women, minorities, individuals with disabilities, and covered veterans. To learn more about how BC supports diversity and inclusion throughout the university please visit the Office for Institutional Diversity at https://www.bc.edu/diversity .

Boston College's Notice of Nondiscrimination can be viewed at https://www.bc.edu/nondiscrimination .